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In its initial years, the AP Poll did not award a trophy. [9] The preeminent national championship trophy of the era was the Knute Rockne Memorial Trophy awarded by the Dickinson System. [9] Following the retirement of Frank G. Dickinson and his rating system in 1940, Minnesota tasked the AP Poll with awarding the new trophy it put into play.
The AP national championship trophy was presented to USC on December 31, the day before the Rose Bowl was played. No post-bowl polls were taken by the AP/UPI. The FWAA awarded the Grantland Rice Award to "the Trojans, victors in the Rose Bowl and undefeated and untied in 10 season games" post-bowl on January 7 .
The Veteran Athletes of Philadelphia put up the Bonniwell Trophy for the national championship in 1919 [19] under the stipulation that it was only "to be awarded in such years as produces a team whose standing is so preeminent as to make its selection as champion of America beyond dispute." Notre Dame was the first to be awarded the trophy, in ...
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Michigan took the #1 spot in the AP poll on November 16, 1947, and Notre Dame moved into the #1 spot on November 23, 1947, by a margin of 1,410 points to 1,289 points. [19] [20] This last regular season poll determined the recipient of the AP's national championship trophy.
The "writers' poll" by Associated Press (AP) was the most popular, followed by the "coaches' poll" by United Press International) (UPI). Until 1974, the UPI issued its final poll before the bowls, but beginning in 1968 (also 1965), the AP Trophy was withheld until the postseason was completed. The AP poll in 1970 consisted of the votes of as ...
In its first year after losing the Coaches' Poll, United Press International polled 104 members of the National Football Foundation to assemble a Top 25 ranking. [36] Washington was ranked No. 1 in the final UPI-NFF poll, with 71 first-place votes to Miami's 21, and won the NFF MacArthur Bowl national championship trophy. [36]
The trophy was designed by design firm Pentagram and crafted by the Polich Tallix fine art foundry of Rock Tavern, New York. College Football Playoff officials commissioned the trophy for the new playoff system, preferring a new award that was unconnected with the previous Bowl Championship Series (BCS) postseason system which was sometimes ...